Privacy Director – AN/EPD/RMDx/CDx

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About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader creating breakthrough science to improve peoples health. Were always looking towards the future anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott you can do work that matters grow and learn care for yourself and family be your true self and live a full life. Youll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement theFreedom 2 Save student debt program andFreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelors degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity working mothers female executives and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of Abbott Park IL and supports Abbotts Nutrition Established Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics divisions.

The successful candidate should have a proven track record in collaboratively and pragmatically directing privacy and data protection strategies needs and issues for a multi-national company. He/she has experience in presenting to senior executives is a self-starter who successfully works with cross-functional working groups and works effectively with regulators and can provide risk-based guidance with imperfect information.

Qualified candidate is expected to build effective relationships with business unit leaders and other clients and to partner with Abbotts global Legal and IT organizations. He/she also works with numerous other privacy and compliance stakeholders around the world.

What Youll Work On

• Building and maintaining a deep business understanding.
• Leading and managing a diverse team of privacy and compliance professionals.
• Informing and advising Abbott businesses and employees of their obligations to ethically collect and protect personal data and to comply with Abbott policies and global/local privacy regulations.
• Advising stakeholders with regards to go-to-market privacy strategies for new products or services.
• Informing and advising with regards to data privacy data protection and cybersecurity laws and regulations.
• Leading compliance monitoring including managing internal data protection activities provide training and conducting internal monitoring.
• Advising on privacy impact and risk assessments.
• Working and cooperating with designated supervisory authorities on issues and inquiries related to the processing of personal data.
• Being available for inquiries from data subjects on issues relating to privacy and data protection practices.
• Leading business specific incident response processes.
• Working closely with Abbott Privacy leadership team and continuously partner with division/global Compliance leadership and teams.
• Leading oversight and monitoring of the Divisionsprivacy compliance program including coordination with regional privacy and compliance team members.
• Leading the development of division specific policies and procedures work instructions and other necessary procedural documents.
• Leading interactions between Privacy and business stakeholders by providing guidelines checklists training resources and other support to help streamline the submission and review of privacy impact and risk assessments and other requests for privacy support.
• Triaging routing tracking and managing the status ownership and completion of privacy projects requests and risk assessments.
• Working with product and engineering teams to enhance manage and develop new Privacy by Design methodologies processes and policies to support the launch of consumer and healthcare professional related privacy initiatives globally.
• Gathering facts and information to coordinate analysis and privacy-related responses with regional privacy team members legal and IT to internal audits customer inquiries data protection regulator inquiries and Data Subject Access Requests.
• Leading the creation and management of metrics and other tools to help communicate and track Privacy team progress and strategy for senior leadership.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor level or equivalent degree.
• Proven track record with regards to the following leadership skills:
  • Executive stakeholder management
  • Change management
  • Project management
  • Communication
  • Active listening skills
  • Collaboration
  • Decision making and
  • Agile learner.
• Must have worked effectively with all levels of management up to and including Division President Corporate and Divisional VPs & Directors. High level of oral and written communication skills required.
• Ability to manage directly and indirectly across multiple languages geography and time zones is a must.
• At least 8-10 yearsof experience demonstrating decision making personnel management and leadership skills.
• Strong process management expertise and mindset.
• Deep understanding of business interests and data processing activity.
• Experience with digital technologies.
• Strong knowledge of data protection and cybersecurity laws and regulations as well as industry leading-practices and standards and ability to understand and assess data protection risk and business benefit.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting product launches or familiarity with product launch lifecycle.
• Experience scaling of privacy controls and capabilities.
• Experience in program management consulting or internal regulatory compliance.
• Experience and understanding of compliance practices related to data security and privacy including common risks and controls.
• Professional certification in privacy (e.g. CIPP CIPM CIPT CDPSE).
• Ability to effectively navigate in a highly matrixed organization.
• Proven strength to identify stakeholders and points of view bringing people together to agree on and execute a strategy.
• Prior exposure to regulated healthcare and life sciences companies a plus.

* Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

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